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 you can usually blow an insect off of you easier with a breath than with a
 slap or a slam.
 
 only truly evil foes like mosquitos deserve such a fate.
 
 don't try it against spiders, because their fangs are naturally pointed down
 
 but blowing is better
 
 they won't suffer any harm
 
 also it's often easier because the bugs don't cooperate when you try to put
 them on a paper-thin platter.
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--- #1 messages/747 ---
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 if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
 
 what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
 of "evil"?
 
 fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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 @user-883 
 
 this is how our islands become swamps
 
 I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
 
 keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
 
 or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
 
 are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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--- #4 fediverse/4469 ---
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 doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
 
 don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
 smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
 
 but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
 future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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--- #5 messages/1037 ---
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 Elentalus - the only blood magic available is sacrificing demon blood to
 demons. You can only do it by spending nature and death gems. Elentalian
 demons don't want human blood it's caustic to them because of the iron content
 - they all have iron vulnerability 15.
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--- #6 fediverse/1774 ---
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 @user-898 
 
 the wounds of the soul can be just as harmful as the wounds of the heart, and
 both can be helped with campfires.
 
 what's worse, they often harm people around you rather than the wounds of the
 body, which typically only harm you. Unless you have like, the plague or
 something and you might spread it to others or something like that.
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 if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince
 it that you've beaten it.
 
 as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
 beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your
 best to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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--- #8 fediverse/5444 ---
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 if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
 dastardly deeds out of sight.
 
 if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
 
 I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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--- #9 fediverse/5997 ---
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 they attack the bad guys in our provinces and say that it's our foes, and they
 attack the bad guys in their provinces and say that it's ours that are foes
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--- #10 messages/649 ---
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 when playing co-operative strategy games, a build focused purely on
 self-defence and community organizing can easily fail your allies. You cannot
 win with a purely defensive build, you must have offensive capabilities as
 well.
 
 We've been trained from a young age to believe that offensive = bad, wrong,
 evil, but that's simply not true. You cannot execute a flanking maneuver
 without pushing forward behind enemy lines, where you can hit them in their
 sides or rear.
 
 Trust me, flanking is the best way to defeat a foe, because they are forced to
 split their attention not only between multiple enemies but also multiple
 directions.
 
 The more shots on target, the better your chances of success, because most of
 the time it only takes one hit to win.
 
 In addition, sometimes it's important to *intercept* your foes, either as they
 flee or to protect a vulnerable friend that is being pounced upon or flanked.
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 if you want to fight ice, patrol your neighborhoods where all the mexicans
 live.
 bring a gun if you're willing to die for liberty.
 
 Don't wear all black. Wear your favorite outfit, to be remembered.
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 My cat saw me biting my toenails ONE TIME and now she's never too sharp.
 
 Well, she bites pretty good. But it's much easier to play with your hands if
 her blades are soft(er)
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 I wish I could buy some locally native spiders on the internet to live in my
 house and eat all these fruit flies -.-
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 they say that slugs don't like salt because they turn into pickles
 
 of course that's not true, cucumbers turn into slugs when fed a diet of leaves
 and cucumbers
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--- #15 fediverse/1494 ---
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 gossip is only bad if you're mean. sometimes it's nice to know how your
 friends feel about things, or other people. Just don't be mean. Don't hide
 hatred with platitudes. Don't be spiteful, or vengeful, just... be good to
 people. Both with your actions, and your thoughts. Thoughts that you share
 with people close to you. Then gossip isn't mean.
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--- #16 fediverse/4715 ---
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 @user-1728 
 
 "oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
 
 yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
 all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in
 some way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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--- #17 fediverse/1718 ---
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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--- #18 fediverse/5025 ---
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 @user-1758 
 
 you can get a "blade holder" style box-cutter and save your kooking citchen
 utensils for the parts of your stuff that you'd enjoy putting in your mouth.
 
 Yech, packing take residue! no thank you.
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--- #19 fediverse/3472 ---
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 any online test that requires an email to give you the results is evil, don't
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 A good way to get people talking is to meet with a stranger and share your
 feelings.
 
 Or, if you're scared of strangers, then try talking with a friend.
 
 "something something SUPREME COURT something whatever CRIMINALIZED PEOPLE blah
 blah blah I WON'T STAND FOR IT"
 
 that kind of thing. Make sure you look at your friend for the loud bits, and
 maybe look at someone else nearby when it's your friend's turn to speak.
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--- #21 fediverse/6004 ---
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 I want to make evil things and sell them to rich people to cause them to have
 a change of heart
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 people's palestine trauma is totally gonna fuck them up when it happens to
 their backyard.
 
 thanks, evil-run social media. It's true we wouldn't have been motivated
 without it, but such horrors are interminable to concieve about.
 
 "what if we just built our own websites and linked to them when we find them?"
 
 "hmmmm, interesting, this goes in my XYZ bookmark folder"
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--- #23 messages/994 ---
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 You should not, generally, spend time in places covered in bird poop or poison
 oak. You should also avoid abandoned wooden structures or old fallen logs,
 because spiders. Also, don't spend too much time on islands made of sand. They
 wash away as you step on them, as erosion takes its toll. Plus permanence is
 impossible in your structures. Not ideal in any sense - build on rock.
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
 about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
 toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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 I'd rather fight my foes in a fair fight than butcher them in the night.
 
 just because I suck at fighting doesn't mean I don't understand honor.
 
 I'm unreliable, not dishonorable, there's a difference, and it's not about
 reputation.
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--- #26 fediverse/421 ---
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 one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed
 things, hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm
 you.
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 @user-192 there's a fine line between inoculating yourself to fear (like a
 person taking small doses of poison to build up a resistance) and giving your
 mind extra ammunition to use against you when the real terrors find you.
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--- #28 fediverse_boost/4779 ---
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  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a bullet to the head.  
                                                                              
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--- #29 fediverse/5310 ---
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 you can intimidate anyone by saying "hello. we know more than you."
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 it's good to be ethical,
 it's good to be kind,
 
 but there will always be assholes,
 and sometimes you're not having a good time
 
 it's okay
 it's fine
 
 assholes deserve life
 times deserve others to be kind
 
 life is not always interesting
 and that's often by design
 
 the moments of clarity,
 the moments of heart,
 
 these are what define you
 and display your own spark.
 
 trust in yourself.
 be kind to one another.
 
 you are braver than you know,
 and always a bit wiser.
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--- #31 fediverse/5694 ---
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 at a certain point, you need to take a moment to think about what your plan is
 if the bread, circuses, and ballots fail you and war comes to your land.
 
 in that moment, you know your current plan.
 
 Plan for the worst, celebrate the victories. Despair not for losses, for they
 are necessary and valid scars to bear.
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--- #33 fediverse/771 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 yeeeesh that sounds like a hornets nest. impossible to untangle, like a rats
 nest! I prefer my homes like a robin's nest, neat, orderly, and made to design.
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 @user-620 
 
 "hey I have an idea let's poke a wounded animal with sharp teeth until it
 feels like it's backed into a corner because it's been spending the past
 couple years ruminating and telling itself that we want to kill it and it's
 children"
 
 it doesn't matter what the truth is - they believe what they want.
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 If you're radical enough to consider yourself "antifa" then you are probably
 working as hard as you can. I wouldn't ask you to do more.
 
 We must demand that others work for our future as well. It is unreasonable to
 demand so much of us. We must be funded and supported if we are to mobilize,
 and we must have the freedom to move and organize if we are to contest our
 enemies.
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--- #36 fediverse/4478 ---
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 can't wait for season two of Andor, either it totally sucks or it'll knock our
 socks off. But something tells me it won't hurt us either way.
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 if someone on the street asked you, could you point to the nearest power
 station? wastewater treatment plant? hell even a gas-station
 
 if you live in a city, probably not. They put them in fake buildings with
 hollowed out exteriors in order to keep the city looking nice.
 
 these crucial pieces of infrastructure are important to defend. but if you
 don't know which street to turn down, then you might miss them.
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--- #38 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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 why are the anarkitties so quiet usually they like to shout
 
 a razor or four that's sharp on the sides [trapezoid] and mounted to the
 forearm (hinge) and [placed/braced] on a knuckle with
 auto-sheathing-but-not-retracting functionality
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--- #40 fediverse_boost/6010 ---
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  If you can, try to reduce how dependent you are on evil organisations to get by day-to-day  
  
                                                            
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--- #41 fediverse/1771 ---
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 with a sword, consider "stabbing" to be "the fundamentals". If you master
 stabbing, you will naturally excel at other arcs.
 
 my sword is evenly weighted instead of balanced at the hip. It is a
 short-spear in function, with blade all the way down.
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 hey, you know how historically they used to lobotomize young women who were
 too fiery, passionate, independent, driven, motivated, and clairvoyant?
 
 they did that on purpose.
 
 that was less than a lifetime ago.
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 If you have numbers, envelop your foes.
 
 If you are elite, pierce to their heart.
 
 If you only have numbers, give your commanders bodyguards.
 
 If you only have elite, become undiscoverable.
 
 EDIT:
 If you are fast, hit from the side.
 
 if you are only fast, keep them just out of sight.
 
 If you are strong, deal crushing blows
 
 if you are only strong, you no longer have any foes.
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 Also she's just a person, a cursed person but hey she's just trying to do
 right. So am i. I believe in goodness, and so does she (even though she can be
 a bit evil about it) (without trying, I might add, it just comes naturally to
 her) (she's better now though)
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 one of my favorite things about City of Villains is you can beat up both Nazis
 and superheroes and still feel like a good guy because it's impossible to harm
 the common folk. Just those who make being "common" difficult.
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--- #47 fediverse/1764 ---
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 Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of  pumping oil out of the ground,
 we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
 thousand years
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--- #48 fediverse/1209 ---
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 if your witch hat has a brim that looks like a circle then you're wearing it
 backwards.
 
 witch hats should fold flat. The angled part should be in front so you only
 have to see a thin slice of reality, that way people are only able to see your
 eyes if you look directly at them.
 
 it adds to the mystique.
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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--- #51 fediverse/5853 ---
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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--- #52 fediverse/2044 ---
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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 I trust that you will betray me.
 
 it's okay.
 
 all that I need is for you to be here, with me.
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 in defence of who? of me, of you?
 
 sure. all of the above.
 
 "bad guys are on the horizon, they're marching to the gates, and you sit and
 you plead with your god to deliver you from the fate you forsaw, and delivered
 too. what is your response?"
 
 I wish I knew. I deal with what's in front of me. would that my dreams could
 be true. every time I've tried that route, it's never been the right time. I
 guess I have terrible timing.
 
 Time me for me, please?
 
 I swear I'll sprint the fastest, as hard as my legs will carry me.
 
 I swear I'll work the hardest, at least until I burn out from lack of sleep.
 
 I swear I'll be at my finest, when all the keeps crack around us and all of us
 hear as it's falling around us.
 
 there's something of an urgency to start-ology, but when you don't talk about
 it because you're italian silenced, how can you ever know when the wind blows
 true? you can feel it at your back, but that's local. it's localized. what do
 you do when everything you do is awaited with bated breath?
 
 take naps, ig
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 @user-398 
 
 you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
 this hill
 
 (jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
 likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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--- #56 fediverse/3411 ---
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 @user-1314 @user-1280 @user-1526 
 
 They will gladly live in a tent under an overpass cooking rats on a wire
 hanger so long as you can guarantee that black/brown/LGBTQs don't have a tent,
 rat, or wire hanger.
 
 I'd almost agree, except strike "have" and replace it with "need"
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 it's okay to be a little evil sometimes
 
 all things are defined in waves, and your highest peaks are nothing without
 low valleys to accompany them. Balance arises naturally from the contest of
 these two natures, and, well, you're gonna figure it out anyway no matter what
 I say so why bother teehee
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--- #58 fediverse/3570 ---
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 @user-1558 
 
 I contest trolls too because it fulfills my internal adventurer instinct to
 protect marketplaces and farmhouses from savage brutes made out of moss with
 clubs the size of a log
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 @user-521 
 
 I can't stand mean comedy. Or cringe comedy. It just, doesn't make sense to
 me? And I get physically upset when people are put in difficult situations
 that you're supposed to laugh at for some reason.
 
 Like my goodness what kind of values are they seeking to instill in their
 audience with this kind of propaganda amiright
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 for the same reason you shouldn't compliment a cute girl based on something
 she can't control ("nice tits gorgeous can I suck on ur nipples later") but
 should instead compliment them on something they chose ("cool tattoos I also
 like Celeste")
 
 you also shouldn't accuse hot people of colonizing just because they like to
 play Magic the Gathering or whatever.
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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please
 eat your vegetables when you can.
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--- #62 fediverse/3233 ---
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 living in a nest of vipers is great because you get to test daily whether or
 not they value things besides venom
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--- #63 messages/1133 ---
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 if you ever survive a conflict, convince everyone to travel to different
 nearby cities. Continue to do so, spread the word of your victory.
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 if you're gonna walk out of the pacific northwest, much better I think to do
 it in the heat, than the mud.
 
 mud is the worst.
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--- #65 messages/765 ---
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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--- #66 fediverse/2816 ---
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 one difference between fantasy and reality is that in fantasy, when you fail,
 you try again.
 
 in reality, when you fail, you are promoted so your boss doesn't have to deal
 with your shit.
 
 in fantasy, when you succeed, you are tasked with greater trials
 
 in reality, when you do well, you are given more of the same.
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--- #67 fediverse/2583 ---
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 short hair is better in a fight.
 
 long hair is better in the sun, or the cold.
 
 long hair is worse in the heat, and the rain.
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--- #68 fediverse/5872 ---
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 what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
 the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
 
 [timestamp]
 
 [she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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--- #69 fediverse/3514 ---
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 @user-579 
 
 maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
 infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
 brownie points
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--- #70 fediverse/1244 ---
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 in a battle, your foe's greatest weapon is the screams of your falling.
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--- #71 fediverse/3724 ---
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 witches would "ride brooms" everywhere because they're quarterstaves, and when
 you have like 3 brooms being pushed in your face because your backup is there
 to help keep the men away, it's a lot more intimidating for would-be-rapists.
 
 Witches ride bikes everywhere (now that they've been invented) because they're
 easy, they're free, they're quiet, and they're cheap. They let you get away
 from any encounter, which is the BEST way to get out alive and still retain
 your experience point bonus.
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--- #72 fediverse/233 ---
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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 the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
 betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
 me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
 
 desecreation of truth. How could you.
 
 I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
 
 I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
 vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
 
 What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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--- #74 fediverse/1361 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 I'd say "content warning: fear-cursed-if-true-not-politics" that way people
 who had "Fear" or "cursed" on their filter list wouldn't see it. Things that
 are commonly content-warning'd are also commonly content-filtered by people
 who tend to be the biggest beneficiaries of healthily designed
 content-warnings. so putting keywords in there that filter out people who
 don't want to see intense or damaging things to their psyche can avoid it more
 easily.
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--- #75 fediverse/5840 ---
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 ]]]]
 
 I have never stopped fighting for the people, ever, once, at any time.
 
 every moment of pause or relaxation was purely intended in pursuit of the
 cause.
 
 -- turn-of-the-century-autocrat
 
 enchanting magic's easier when you have a laboratory
 
 please, please, please let me teach you magic?
 
 enchantment is temporary, construction is as stable as the boject youses form.
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--- #76 messages/1018 ---
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 If you want to get me to calm down, tell me this: "all you have are good
 things. Nothing here is bad."
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--- #77 fediverse/5787 ---
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 if you want to make rope, you start with small pieces and braid them together.
 
 if you want to make hope, you start with families and braid them together.
 
 just be careful, for the world is too vast to keep track of who knows what.
 better in my mind to have systems of familiar forces which keep guiding as
 things align.
 
 -- twisted sister
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--- #78 fediverse/94 ---
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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--- #79 fediverse/6066 ---
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 if you need a gun, you will be given one. don't trust anything where your
 pistol is what saves the day.
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--- #80 fediverse/597 ---
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 would your ancestors be more upset that you threw away a glowstick, or jealous
 that you can wear a firefly bracelet?
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--- #81 fediverse/5539 ---
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 don't put dirty dishes in the sink you filthy animals
 
 put them on the counter NEXT to the sink
 
 [it's not arbitrary it's just better]
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 can you imagine if cows made cheese instead of milk
 
 and you had to squeeze it out of their udders like easy-cheeze
 
 [why would you say such a thing]
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--- #83 fediverse/2285 ---
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 if you're ever hanging out with my cat and she puts her paw on your face, that
 means she wants you to kiss her forehead. 😋
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--- #84 fediverse/5018 ---
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 if you want to do communism in a city, you must first buy a parking lot.
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--- #85 fediverse/487 ---
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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--- #86 fediverse/4676 ---
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 ... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play
 a paladin.
 
 the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
 dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
 
 wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
 advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
 a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
 something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
 utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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--- #87 fediverse/4699 ---
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 someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
 just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
 pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
 hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so
 I guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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--- #88 fediverse/2983 ---
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 when eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, always make sure the jelly
 side is facing you before biting.
 
 that way, you have sweet jelly on your tongue before the sticky peanut butter
 overrides your tastebuds
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--- #89 fediverse/6138 ---
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 the only two insects that you have to care about as a quartermaster are
 pollinators, and the hunters who catch the vermin.
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 "Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
 rifle.
 
 Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who
 wield them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.
 
 Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as
 you've led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what
 you've lost, but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.
 
 Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
 beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
 burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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--- #91 fediverse/2967 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 "here's how to get caught. don't... don't do the things in these books. also,
 uh... don't do the things that AREN'T in these books, wink"
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 everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
 addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
 their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
 them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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--- #93 fediverse/2043 ---
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 @user-1150 
 
 if you know how and have access to certain hand tools that are typically found
 in suburban dad garages (but not in a toolkit bought from target or whatever)
 you can turn any semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic one.
 
 It's highly illegal, but it's technically possible.
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--- #94 fediverse/2786 ---
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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--- #95 fediverse_boost/3867 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I really hate "two factor" auth.  Like, cool, I get it, it let's you pretend you can divest responsibility for security and recovery, but also it means dropping my phone too hard could be a life disrupting event so somehow I don't really feel like this is for my benefit.  
  
                                                            
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--- #96 messages/968 ---
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 what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
 applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
 and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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--- #97 fediverse/2281 ---
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 I'd be a terrible spy. Not only is my opsec something that someone needs to
 teach me, I'm much too busy to implement things without their help. I am
 unabashedly compassionate though, so just ask and I'll pour love from my heart.
 
 But hey! There's always time to practice, each moment you can think "what kind
 of a sign is this?"
 
 Like a crazy person following the will of god, or a nature witch listening to
 the wind in the trees.
 
 What they often get wrong, and what they could be better at hearing, is that
 signals are not signs unless they're out of the ordinary.
 
 Trick is, if you're a spy, then you need to leave signals that are visible
 enough to your quarry, but not to the stars.
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 fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
 
 their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just
 a hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of
 militia-men who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
 
 [... what?]
 
 don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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--- #99 fediverse/6264 ---
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 the more you can make your opponent adjust, the more you progress toward
 victory.
 
 burn their calories. make them work for it. if they're stronger, you're weak.
 plan as with that in mind.
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 @user-358 @user-356 
 
 Neat! I'm assuming you can screw in a little antenna? That's awful cute. Like
 a robot getting eyebrows.
 
 Why do you need two of them, though? Actually screw it that's a dumb question,
 robots can obviously express themselves more clearly if both their eyes are
 professed.
 
 Wait... Why do robots need more than one eye? Because it'd be weird otherwise,
 duh.
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--- #101 messages/713 ---
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 The gods guide us in our times of need because when we dream they use us to be
 all we can be
 
 Sleep, sweet child, and your expertise will be freed. Ready to be used when
 tithes are due. In return, you get a spirit to guide you when passion is hot -
 when blood is boiled - when fire is alight.
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--- #102 fediverse/1517 ---
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 if you don't feed the trolls, then they find their own clan. and in doing so,
 they make their own echo chambers. what would a bunch of trolls do to each
 other? the poor dears.
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--- #103 fediverse/5364 ---
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 when considering invasive species, it doesn't matter how resistant a plant is    │
 to a bug that likes to eat it.                                                   │
 what matters is whether or not the plant is attractive to the bug.               │
 if the plant is hardy, it may resist the bug and slow it down, but the           │
 onslaught is inevitable. the plant will fall. perhaps some of it's brethren      │
 will survive, but next year there will be more bugs because nature is just       │
 like that I guess.                                                               │
 the plants that are less attractive to the ravaging bugs will be eaten last,     │
 meaning they may be able to outlast the bug season.                              │
 or maybe not. maybe the hardy plants will be eaten slower, and thus will be      │
 considered less attractive. who can say. the end result though is that bugs      │
 get fed, plants get gnoshed on, and humans are like "wait where did all the      │
 biomass go" or more likely "hey it's really hot without all the plants shading   │
 the ground and the bugs helping build the soil and the natural ecosystem         │
 working cyclically, can you turn up the AC?" or more likely "it's really hot,    │
 turn up the AC!"                                                                 │
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--- #104 fediverse/5299 ---
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 @user-1800 
 
 also googly eyes on sunglasses to fuck with their eye-movement-tracking
 
 ... wait, then you wouldn't be able to see. okay how about you place the
 googly eyes on the forehead part of a HELMET of some kind, which should help
 protect your "not-gonna-get-back-up" parts from harm.
 
 and don't forget sunglasses because they help with the UV-ray violet
 radicalization.
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--- #105 fediverse/5951 ---
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 "uh-oh, she's"
 
 magic is easy. all you have to do is earnestly attempt to have a conversation
 with whoever will listen. I like to sit on my bed and listen, by earnestly
 allowing my thoughts to be guided by the wind.
 
 open up your mind, release yourself from your senses, and who knows - maybe
 someone will adjust your thinking flows. (thought patterns)
 
 [all you gotta do is make the black market the regular market and suddenly
 everything just flows]
 
 huh weird idk where that came from, anyway
 
 magic is easy, just represent yourself earnestly as you would if you were
 presenting in court
 
 you don't need witnesses... just argue your point without any lies and people
 will generally believe you.
 
 "yeah... sure thing buddy, we know how you pronounce "
 
 omg I'm scary because I don't shower, I wear diapers, and I'm always often
 smoking cannabis
 
 "awww, some people wanted mao"
 
 meow
 
 what if... they could do that? insert magical genie witch whoa cute yeah I
 believe you, sure
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 @user-1695 
 
 never accept your own death
 
 fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into
 that grim dark
 
 what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
 fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
 
 I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but
 it'll get done.
 
 Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an
 organizational problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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 capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
 you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand
 that you use them.
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--- #108 messages/904 ---
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 if the devil gave you false paradise since birth,
 why would you not seek to destroy it?
 
 if an angel gave you an easy hell on earth,
 why would you not seek to deface it?
 
 if your ancestors put you on the path to success,
 would you follow them and forever do the same?
 
 if your family urged you to study rocket science,
 would you bomb indescriminately?
 
 
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 witch cauldrons make sense as popcorn pots but nobody likes to think of them
 as friendly to children because they worship their gods in the dark. dark
 gods. the kind that you pray to when church betrays you.
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--- #110 fediverse/4697 ---
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 I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
 climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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 I hereby do swear that I will NEVER make a deal with a devil to "fix" my own
 disabilities in exchange for... anything, really. Devils only make contracts
 they can benefit from, true, but they are devils because they also only make
 contracts that HURT you MORE than they help you.
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 hello, I am an ant if @, but you can't touch me, because I am a law abiding
 citizen.
 
 I have to be, for I am loud.
 
 ... okay I stole a movie from the internet at least once.
 
 also when I was 11 I walked out of a store with a keychain in my pocket. I
 thought it had a nice texture so I was examining it and then my mom distracted
 me and somehow it ended up in my pocket. That night will forever haunt me...
 She wouldn't let me take it back...
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--- #113 fediverse/1986 ---
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 when cornered, is it your instinct to escape? or to take one of them down with
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--- #114 fediverse/365 ---
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 @user-269 
 
 oh you mean like gmail? hmmmm something something don't be evil
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 the thing about carmelized mushrooms and onions is that they demand patience.
 
 they make you sit there and wait, always at attention ready to stir every
 couple minutes.
 
 but the end result is so worth it.
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--- #116 fediverse/4568 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 ... and like. idk what do you do at that point
 
 say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
 valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
 collections?
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--- #117 fediverse/5727 ---
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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--- #118 fediverse/5089 ---
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 I can't see very well. I need bifocals, but like... reversed, so the
 close-range thing is at the top and the long-range is at the bottom, just to
 see how terrible it'd be
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--- #119 fediverse/4600 ---
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 they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
 weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
 
 then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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--- #120 fediverse/5582 ---
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 why do adult babies like to live in space?
 
 because then they can be picked up and moved around easier. All you need is a
 push, no matter how hard, and you can build up inertia.
 
 plus, astronauts use diapers I heard.
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--- #121 fediverse/5673 ---
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 darn girlfriends snuggling me to death. lemme type pls I got psychic ramblings
 to profess earnestly and honestly and truely
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--- #122 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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--- #123 fediverse/1703 ---
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 suburbs aren't boring because all the cool people live in cities,
 
 suburbs are boring because all the cool people don't know you. But look
 around, because they're there.
 
 if you can't find any, then YOU are the cool people, and you should find the
 slightly-less cool people and show them how to be cool.
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--- #124 fediverse/138 ---
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 @user-129 if you throw your plate across the room instead of eating well then
 it was probably an accident. if you keep doing it and are being a huge brat
 about it then maybe you should go in time-out until you are ready to sit at
 the table and eat like an adult. plates are expensive yo, and people are
 starving (for housing) in Africa or whatever.
 
 in related news, I heard that ~40% of homes in America are empty. I don't know
 if that's still true, I read it in like, 2014. I wonder if it's higher or
 lower now?
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--- #125 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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--- #126 fediverse/3776 ---
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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--- #127 fediverse/714 ---
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 @user-538 
 
 I'd offer that meticulous, uncompromising ethics is the only efficient,
 sensible, and optimized method of operation (assuming maximum prosperity at
 maximum distribution is a goal).
 
 True, as long as the axioms that comprise the ethics are valid and the
 supporting arguments are sound
 
 EDIT: cut out the bits that I'm not an expert on
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--- #128 fediverse/6457 ---
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 the second rule is you don't have to hang out with mortals. there are places
 you can go where they won't find you, except by accident, and then you just go
 somewhere else.
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--- #129 fediverse/829 ---
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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--- #130 fediverse/533 ---
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 darn, that's good to know. I guess I could make multiple posts but I don't
 want to spam people - Mastodon tends to notify people whenever you do ANYTHING
 which I worry is bothersome. Hence the attempts to compress longer thoughts
 into smaller spaces...
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 if you're gonna kill yourself anyway, might as well throw yourself at a cause
 you believe in. Ideally the kind that requires repeated attendance and lots of
 opportunities to make friends or forge communal bonds with people who can help
 you.
 
 honestly, what do you have to lose? sure it's hard, but nothing worth doing is
 easy. If it were, someone else would have done it already.
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--- #132 fediverse/762 ---
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 I'm a good witch, which means I write poems and bake cookies. Okay usually I
 make something more nutritious, like "melange". Also I'm good at listening to
 people's problems and I always have a cup of tea ready for you when you walk
 in the door.
 
 bad witches are kinda evil. They're the type who curse animals with human
 forms and enslave the fae by forcing them to work desk jobs and such. They
 also propagate spores for poisonous mushrooms in the forest, the kind that
 LOOK like they're edible but actually aren't.
 
 but, as all things are defined in waves, so too are the patterns of witches -
 for every bad witch, there's a good one just around the corner.
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--- #133 fediverse/3351 ---
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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--- #134 fediverse/5865 ---
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 to be clear, salting fields is dumb, don't do it, it's bad for the environment
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 "trick or treat" doesn't mean "give me a trick or a treat"
 
 that's awfully presumptuous and demanding.
 
 No, it means "give me a treat or I'll trick you" meaning "give me my candy tax
 or I'll fuck up your lawn"
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--- #136 fediverse/549 ---
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 ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
 system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down
 a police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
 and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung
 up on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st
 century of you
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--- #137 fediverse/4072 ---
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #138 fediverse/4191 ---
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 [breaking up fediverse posts into little parts like this is nice because it
 allows people to "like" more specific things about what you're writing]
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--- #139 messages/685 ---
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 If someone calls you in the middle of the night asking to be let in because
 they need a place to sleep, don't let them in! Unless you know them obvi but
 someone you don't know trying to manipulate you like "please I need some
 shelter" like, babe no, we need to know each other first, it's dark, I'm in my
 pajamas, c'mon.
 
 If it's below freezing then okay, maybe, but... They got themselves into that
 situation
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--- #140 fediverse/5475 ---
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 @user-1842 
 
 anything you say on the internet will be readable by future generations
 (unless it gets deleted completely somehow)
 
 this means that any internet-bourne horrors will haunt the children's children
 and beyond
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--- #141 fediverse/6441 ---
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 you can only ever talk to a community while on mainstage.
 
 er wait sorry it was this:
 
 you can only ever talk to people in a community, not the community itself.
 unless you are on mainstage.
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--- #142 fediverse/2705 ---
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 find the people who, when given power over someone else, nurtures and cares
 for them in their service. for those who hurt instead are reliably the evil
 sort of person, and evil has to work twice as hard to justify it's worth.
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--- #143 fediverse/5667 ---
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 if you beat them TOO hard, they go into hiding and sabotage you later.
 
 if you don't strike hard enough, they'll overcome you.
 
 the trick is in the balance. walking the line where they're forced to deploy
 ALL of their assets while you manage to get through with All Things Sacred
 intact.
 
 I should probably post these things on a website instead of a forum for cuties
 and nerds. Alas, free and open source protocols help ensure the message isn't
 lost, obfuscated, or disappeared en route.
 
 ... they help, but nothing can offer guarantees.
 
 blah blah blah I talk too much
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 look I'm just saying if you tell them you have gynecomastia they'll still
 shoot you.
 
 better to not get to that point.
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--- #145 fediverse/1535 ---
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 I only take things that aren't mine if they're in the trash. Or near the
 trash. Or in a store.
 
 so weird how the store won't let me leave until I give them some of my
 dollars. This quartermaster drives a hard bargain!
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--- #146 fediverse/892 ---
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 @user-622 
 
 ah but a noble house would have armed guards who would drag you kicking and
 screaming out onto the cold winter night the moment you offended m'lordship
 
 frankly I could do with a good drag-and-kicking myself, where have all the
 good men-at-arms gone T.T
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--- #147 messages/534 ---
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 War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
 this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with
 words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand
 it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the
 innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who
 make it.
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--- #148 fediverse/2480 ---
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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 listen I know it's easy to be defeatist but, like... they still think their
 foes consist primarily of blue-haired liberals
 
 lol they're so fucked
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 hey. wanna know what would be really cursed?
 
 --
 
 if trump dropped out and musk took his place
 
 --
 
 good thing it'll never happen because those dinguses can't accept defeat and
 will never tactically retreat
 
 --
 
 maybe something to keep in mind for 4 years from now. eyes on the prize for
 now means our eyes aren't to our flanks.
 
 what else could they do that would come out of left field?
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--- #151 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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--- #152 fediverse/2370 ---
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 What do I need, in this moment? A flea collar for my cat.
 
 What do we need? New institutions. Inspired by the old, or perhaps those
 not-yet-forgotten, but built on faith, kindness, love, and trust.
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 when you have a massive, fuck-off military, sometimes the best thing to do is
 to just... use it.
 
 ah, but what do you do when the sky rains poison bombs?
 
 I dunno turn into candy people I guess /shrug
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--- #154 fediverse/216 ---
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 if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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--- #155 fediverse/605 ---
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 I know they look tasty, but don't you dare feed green onions, regular onions,
 or garlic to squirrels or ducks.
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--- #156 messages/989 ---
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 organizing is easy.
 
 just put similar things together until there's a bunch, then put those bunches
 on a shelf.
 
 if you're organizing people, then instead of shelving them, you should put
 them in a room with a whiteboard and give them what they ask for.
 
 oh and make sure you suss out saboteurs and SLAY THEM WITH SWORDS okay
 ragedalf, maybe not with the slaying but you can at least kick them out SO
 THEY CAN BOTHER SOMEONE ELSE yeah so they can bother someone else. Suddenly,
 nobody can get anything done because they're busy fighting themselves.
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--- #157 messages/304 ---
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 Relax.
 
 Take it from me.
 
 I won't resist, at least I'll try, and if I start suddenly then it hurts and
 you should go slower. Unless I do three short, three long, three short.
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--- #158 messages/404 ---
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 They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
 of where you're going.
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 phew this is what happens when you make your morning pages public. gonna eat
 some pizza instead of this nonsense.
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--- #160 fediverse/4821 ---
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--- #161 fediverse/1846 ---
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 If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
 fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
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--- #162 fediverse/1233 ---
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 low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
 but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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--- #163 fediverse/3357 ---
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 bad people are cursed with evil.
 
 a person cannot be evil. they can deal with such evil in their lives that
 twists them, and causes them to spike out and harm others, but they are not
 evil themselves.
 
 some twists are too hard to mend. some healings leave people a shadow of what
 they once were, or might have been. but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
 
 deprive power, supply kindness, in that order.
 
 if you cannot deprive power, then reduce harm.
 
 if you cannot reduce harm, then contest, defeat, or overcome.
 
 A twisted person may be slain if death is on the line. You get what you wish
 for, but you don't always get to choose who. Don't let them choose. They will
 choose poorly.
 
 ... I find that death is very rarely on the table, though. Generally they'll
 make their intentions apparent.
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--- #164 fediverse/4071 ---
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 look, it's alright if you have a pile of clothes on your bedroom floor.
 Just... please make sure it doesn't connect to your mattress. Bugs can climb
 up it and bite you in your sleep. Trust me.
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--- #165 fediverse/1950 ---
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 I honestly don't care if someone deadnames me, or calls me the wrong pronouns,
 or forgets to put me in the girl section, or asks me to sing baritone
 
 like... I don't give a shit, why are you so worried about all this vapid
 nonsense like yeah I get it, being disrespected sucks but like... why do you
 want the kind of respect that is a forced platitude
 
 we could all do with being a bit more radical, it's not a race and everyone's
 roles are important. Be yourself, and follow people you want to be like.
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 me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
 
 me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
 then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
 time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just
 puke, okay?"
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--- #167 messages/727 ---
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 Can you imagine 
 
 Going to your tribal shaman 
 
 Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
 
 ... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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--- #168 fediverse/5818 ---
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 all you can eat sushi places where they bring you a little of whatever the
 shef had been making
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--- #169 fediverse/2363 ---
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 Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
 opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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--- #170 fediverse/3815 ---
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 trying to tame a young dumb monster, wish me luck, I see good in him
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 what if we put all the nukes in a big pile and launched them into space
 
 (nuclear themed asteroid showers?) njot ideal
 
 plus they could just build more in sectret.
 
 okay, so... we made these things, and they're really hard to get rid of. we've
 been able to dissasemble at least one per year, but there's... so many...
 they're really far too conceptually simple to build. it's not right. such
 destructive power should be wielded with might, not for it.
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--- #172 fediverse/166 ---
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 @user-147 years of practice. every time you delete what you said is another
 chance to practice that slips away. writing is the easy part, you got that
 down because you need something to delete, right? the hard part is being
 received by others, and continuing the conversation as you direct it.
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 Canned tomatoes are still tasty! but a beginner does not approach mozart -
 they are beyond compare.
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--- #174 fediverse/3680 ---
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 "I heard she was a witch but I've never seen a hat..."
 
 "When you believe in god, you become inspired when you see or contribute to
 things that are aligned with what it's followers believe that god is "all
 about" - like if you're in ancient greece, and you worship ares, you're
 probably gonna get pretty pumped up if there's an invading army on your
 doorstep. Or if you're a christian and you see someone feeding the poor, or if
 you're a buddhist and you see someone sitting on a rock in tune with nature,
 that kind of thing.
 
 The thing is, these days so many people are atheist. And they never get that
 inspiration.
 
 And worst still, there are some people called witches who aren't pagan, and
 aren't from the various forms of witchery that we know. They claim to worship
 "life, the universe, and the totality of all things" which is nice and all but
 their moments of inspiration seem to come randomly, and nobody can quite
 predict what they'll do or say next when they're in that state."
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 they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
 
 if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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 they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
 
 I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
 
 we are not the same
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--- #178 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #179 fediverse/6262 ---
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--- #180 fediverse/1024 ---
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 @user-753 
 
 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to,
 and all of posterity.
 
 @user-754
 
 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a
 way to fix it permanently.
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--- #181 fediverse/4559 ---
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 "grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
 
 or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and,
 or, almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
 better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement
 to, um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
 
 or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting
 that kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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 if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
 imagine yourself slaying it
 
 ... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
 gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire
 and vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each
 tentacle as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry
 at best, ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out
 from your shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see
 you as you approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
 
 if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 I love all humans. It is unconditional.
 
 The kind of love I have for nazis is a kind of vengeful love.
 
 Like, the way you might love a family dog who recently got rabies, bit two
 more dogs, and is currently eyeing you with terror and malice in its eyes -
 the kind that only comes from the loss of compassion.
 
 "you were kind once, as all humans are, but sometime in your life you made
 choices. and now you are here.
 
 I burn thee for my fathers 
 I spite thee for thine mothers 
 And I slay thee to fight the dragon of hate."
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--- #185 fediverse/5433 ---
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 war is hell and should be avoided at all costs
 
 "does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day
 every day?"
 
 no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you.
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--- #186 fediverse/1003 ---
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 @user-735 
 
 I made a World of Warcraft private server where all the default NPCs are
 removed from the game and the world is empty. But, every once in a while,
 monsters will spawn and attack you Risk of Rain style.
 
 If your character sits down, they stop attacking/spawning. I call it
 "wow-chat" because I'm bad with names, but the idea is basically a low stakes
 social game that you can pick up and set down whenever you want, while hanging
 out with your friends.
 
 there's also treasure and wandering merchants, and I've been thinking about
 adding dynamic quests but so far nobody's asked to play it so I've been
 working on other things.
 
 it's all open source too so you can host it yourself if you want.
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--- #187 messages/377 ---
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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--- #188 fediverse/1385 ---
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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--- #189 fediverse/1027 ---
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 one thing you can rely on about evil: it presents itself as such.                │
 "you can always rely on bad people to turn mean."                                │
 (nobody's beyond forgiveness, but we also need to protect ourselves.)            │
 in video games, going with a defensive build is a valid strategy depending on    │
 how it's values align. If attacking scales better than defending, in terms of    │
 "effectiveness at the most difficult part" (usually the last 90% takes 10% of    │
 the effort) then it's a better strategy. But if your win condition is to         │
 outlast your opponent, then all you need to do is time your aggression for       │
 when they begin fracturing.                                                      │
 "I'm sure you don't know this, but once garth fought a dragon. they crashed      │
 through the skies and littered the fields of their home with the broken and      │
 crashed symbols of their own. garth defeated the dragon when one of it's claws   │
 broke, thus giving him the advantage. he took from that fight a shield of        │
 dragonscale, and a tabard made out of some cloth."                               │
 in a contest of wills, the first sign of weakness is whe                         │
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 if you aren't organized enough to protect your commanders, then you don't
 deserve leaders.
 
 build the structure first. build it on honesty and trust and dedication toward
 a goal. then build the necessary adaptations as you encounter problems, trying
 vaguely to head in a particular direction, and eventually you'll become
 self-sustaining.
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 @user-1259 
 
 you poor thing : (
 
 stay in the shade if you're outside. If your stomach starts feeling worse,
 spend time at home. That's what it's there for.
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--- #192 fediverse/4296 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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 if advertisers feel comfortable putting an ad on your profile then you're not
 using the fediverse correctly
 
 if anyone tells you how to use the fediverse then they're using the fediverse
 wrong
 
 if anyone ever tells you to do anything ever at all for any reason you are
 legally obligated to bite their flesh
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 have you ever been possessed by a SPIRIT??
 
 I have. Like, nearly every day. Okay maybe like, 3/5 days. 3 outta five is
 possession time. woohoo.
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 it's often better to take two knives to a knife fight than a gun to a knife
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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 "ah nuts, the crows are back. Better give them some diced-up carrots so they     │
 shut up."                                                                        │
 BAD, this teaches them to "sing" for attention which is annoying af              │
 "Hmmm, this carrot looks kinda withered. I'm going to dice it up to throw to     │
 the birds because it's better than rotting in a dump"                            │
 BETTER, because you're being sustainable and nourishing local wildlife,          │
 "That songbird is beautiful! And that squirrel is building a nest. I'm going     │
 to throw some of this pre-diced carrot that I keep in an air-tight container     │
 on my porch to them so they feel rewarded for doing things that I want"          │
 EVEN BETTER, but requires more effort and forethought                            │
 [noooo didn't you read ranger rick as a kid you're not supposed to feed the      │
 wildlife because it'll teach them to trust humans in a world where humans can    │
 be total assholes to them and also we don't want them hanging out in cities      │
 because they might get run over or whatever]                                     │
 listen, they're gonna live where they can find food. And if they can't find it   │
 in the woods, they'll liv                                                        │
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 @user-1209 
 
 change is a natural part of the cycle of life.
 
 when your thing dies, make another. defend it for a time, you might even
 persevere true. but should it's end be apparent, be displaced and fight for
 something else.
 
 the largest pictures require the most maintenance. meaning they are the
 easiest targets.
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 the better you eat, the more ready your body will be for unexpected situations.
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 "... and this is moss, our pile of soil. He's really cool, if you feed him
 seeds and take care of his needs, then sometimes a couple months later he
 spits out food. It's awesome. Plus you can throw away your trash there and
 it'll just break it down whatever."
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